OK I know the technology in the blade runner movies won't happen in the timeline  as according to it Roy batty has already been "incepted" by now.

But if we create an alternate timeline where something "jump started" a human tech advancement that made flying cars, replicants, off world colonies, star travel, etc (possibly fubaring earth's ecosystem like it was shown in the movies) then the blade runner universe would make an interesting RPG setting especially if we had the aforementioned off world colonies as part of the setting. Roy batty was a warrior, he'd seen c beams glittering in the dark bear the Tannhäuser gate, he'd seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. Who was fighting? Human vs human or something else?

Would anyone else be interested in a blade runner RPG universe? If so is there any company you'd like to see get it?

For me, i'd like to see FFG do it. Their 40K RPG stuff was pretty high quality and had damn good atmospheric writing. Plus their basic system was pretty good, easy to learn and not bad to play.

One fix might be an alien artifact found at some point in the recent past that gave human tech a massive boost but side effects fucked our weather badly. The existence if aliens might explain who was fighting in the off world colonies.

Quote from: Schwartzwald;1003744One fix might be an alien artifact found at some point in the recent past that gave human tech a massive boost but side effects fucked our weather badly. The existence if aliens might explain who was fighting in the off world colonies.

Ugh.

What is with people in this hobby always wanting to introduce magic or aliens into everything. Might as well play Shadowrun if you introduce that to the BR setting.

Just accept it's an alternate timeline, like CP2020, and it's all set.

As I said it might explain who they were at war with.

Quote from: Schwartzwald;1003750As I said it might explain who they were at war with.

It has to be aliens since humans never war against each other.

There have been Easter eggs and one deleted scene in Prometheus hinting that the Aliens franchise may be in the same universe. So um... Phoenix Command.

Quote from: Krimson;1003787There have been Easter eggs and one deleted scene in Prometheus hinting that the Aliens franchise may be in the same universe. So um... Phoenix Command.

I had repressed that memory. Thanks for victimizing me again.

They're at war with the Socialist hordes of the Union of Progressive Peoples, from William Gibson's rejected Alien 3 script.

I even made a cover... Gives you a hint about the system.

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For that proper dystopian feel, no aliens. Should definitely be at war with The Russians.

No need for another full fledged hard sci-ish game/setting, IMO. Transhuman Space and Eclipse Phase already allow the exploration of those themes seen in the movies, and even more.

Oh, and about the wars in space that Batty saw? They were wars among replicants. Corp A's replicant army vs Corp B replicant army. The new film seem to corroborate on this.

Quote from: kobayashi;1003835I even made a cover... Gives you a hint about the system.

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Kult?

 That's a bold choice, mate!

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West End Games? :confused:

Bladerunner was one of those movies that was always held up as an exemplar for Cyberpunk and related games. As such it is already represented through a lot of the games already mentioned - Shadowrun included. Eclipse Phase and Transhuman Space were directly trying to create games with a greater depth looking at the same themes as Bladerunner, while you can get some dark urban games that at least create the same oppressive, melancholy atmosphere (World of Darkness, Kult, etc).

So there isn't really any drive to make a Bladerunner RPG itself - it's already there really. However, if there was a broader game based upon the worlds of Phillip K. Dick, I'd be interested in that.

Dialed down tech in Stars without Number with the Polychrome supplement would work nicely.